TONY AWARD 2018 Nominees Announced

Congratulations to the 2018 Tony Award Nominees. 

The awards will be presented live on CBS on Sunday, June 10, hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban. Both are very

popular singers, but they also both have serious Broadway ties. Ms. Bareilles wrote the Tony-nominated music and lyrics for Waitress, and for a time even took over the lead role. She also contributed a song to one of this year's nominated musicals, the wildly delightful SpongeBob SquarePants.  Mr. Groban made his Broadway debut last year as Pierre in Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, for which he deservedly was nominated for a Tony. 


As has already been announced, theatrical stalwarts Chita Rivera and Andrew Lloyd Webber will be honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards.  

Special awards are going as well to Bruce Springsteen for his  production Springsteen on Broadway, and to John Leguizamo, for his body of work, including this year's Latin History for Morons.

And a titan of New York's Off Off Broadway theater scene, La Mama E.T. C., has been named as the recipient of the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award. I have happily attended many thrilling performances there, and I was pleased to be able to cast my vote in this category as a proud member of the American Theatre Critics Association. 

Here are the nominees for the 2018 Tony Awards.

Those marked in RED also received Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations. 

Do note that the highly touted musical The Band's Visit, a very strong contender for Best New Musical award, was not eligible for consideration by the Outer Critics Circle or the Drama Desk this year, having won awards from both organizations for several categories in its Off Broadway incarnation in 2017.   



Best Musical

The Band's Visit
Frozen
Mean Girls
SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Play

The Children

Farinelli and The King

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Junk

Latin History for Morons

Best Revival of a Musical

My Fair Lady
Once On This Island
Carousel

Best Revival of a Play

Angels in America

Three Tall Women

The Iceman Cometh
Lobby Hero
Travesties

Best Book of a Musical

The Band's Visit: Itamar Moses
Frozen: Jennifer Lee
Mean Girls: Tina Fey
SpongeBob SquarePants: Kyle Jarrow

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics)

Angels in America
Music: Adrian Sutton 

The Band's Visit
Music and Lyrics: David Yazbek 

Frozen
Music and Lyrics: Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez 

Mean Girls
Music: Jeff Richmond
Lyrics: Nell Benjamin 

SpongeBob SquarePants:
Music & Lyrics: Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler & Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, Lady Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman, John Legend, Panic! at the Disco, Plain White T's, They Might Be Giants, T.I., Domani & Lil'C 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical

Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady
Hailey Kilgore, Once On This Island
LaChanze, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
Katrina Lenk, The Band's Visit
Taylor Louderman, Mean Girls
Jessie Mueller, Carousel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical

Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady
Joshua Henry, Carousel
Tony Shalhoub, The Band's Visit
Ethan Slater, SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play

Glenda Jackson, Three Tall Women
Condola Rashad, Saint Joan
Lauren Ridloff, Children of a Lesser God
Amy Schumer, Meteor Shower

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play

Andrew Garfield, Angels in America
Tom Hollander, Travesties
Jamie Parker, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Mark Rylance, Farinelli and The King
Denzel Washington,The Iceman Cometh

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical

Ariana DeBose, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
Renée Fleming, Carousel
Lindsay Mendez, Carousel
Ashley Park, Mean Girls
Diana Rigg, My Fair Lady

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical

Norbert Leo Butz, My Fair Lady
Alexander Gemignani, Carousel
Grey Henson, Mean Girls
Gavin Lee, SpongeBob SquarePants
Ari'el Stachel, The Band's Visit

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play

Susan Brown, Angels in America
Noma Dumezweni, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Deborah Findlay, The Children
Denise Gough, Angels in America
Laurie Metcalf, Three Tall Women

Best performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play

Anthony Boyle, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Michael Cera, Lobby Hero
Brian Tyree Henry, Lobby Hero
Nathan Lane, Angels in America
David Morse,The Iceman Cometh

Best Direction of a Musical

Michael Arden, Once On This Island
David Cromer, The Band's Visit
Tina Landau, SpongeBob SquarePants
Casey Nicholaw, Mean Girls
Bartlett Sher, My Fair Lady

Best Direction of a Play

Marianne Elliott, Angels in America
Joe Mantello, Three Tall Women
Patrick Marber, Travesties
John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
George C. Wolfe,The Iceman Cometh

Best Choreography

Christopher Gattelli, My Fair Lady
Christopher Gattelli, SpongeBob SquarePants
Steven Hoggett, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Casey Nicholaw, Mean Girls
Justin Peck, Carousel

Best Orchestrations

John Clancy, Mean Girls
Tom Kitt, SpongeBob SquarePants
Annmarie Milazzo & Michael Starobin, Once On This Island
Jamshied Sharifi, The Band's Visit
Jonathan Tunick, Carousel

Best Scenic Design of a Play

Miriam Buether, Three Tall Women
Jonathan Fensom, Farinelli and The King
Christine Jones, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Santo Loquasto, The Iceman Cometh
Ian MacNeil and Edward Pierce, Angels in America

Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Dane Laffrey, Once On This Island
Scott Pask, The Band's Visit
Scott Pask, Finn Ross & Adam Young, Mean Girls
Michael Yeargan, My Fair Lady
David Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants

Best Costume Design of a Play

Jonathan Fensom, Farinelli and The King
Nicky Gillibrand, Angels in America
Katrina Lindsay, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Ann Roth,Three Tall Women
Ann Roth, The Iceman Cometh

Best Costume Design of a Musical
Gregg Barnes, Mean Girls
Clint Ramos, Once On This Island
Ann Roth, Carousel
David Zinn, SpongeBob SquarePants
Catherine Zuber, My Fair Lady

Best Lighting Design of a Play

Neil Austin, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Paule Constable, Angels in America
Jules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer, The Iceman Cometh
Paul Russell, Farinelli and The King
Ben Stanton, Junk

Best Lighting Design of a Musical

Kevin Adams, SpongeBob SquarePants
Jules Fisher + Peggy Eisenhauer, Once On This Island
Donald Holder, My Fair Lady
Brian MacDevitt, Carousel
Tyler Micoleau, The Band's Visit

Best Sound Design of a Play

Adam Cork, Travesties
Ian Dickinson for Autograph, Angels in America
Gareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Dan Moses Schreier, The Iceman Cometh

Best Sound Design of a Musical

Kai Harada, The Band's Visit
Peter Hylenski, Carousel
Brian Ronan, Mean Girls
Walter Trarbach + Mike Dobson, SpongeBob SquarePants

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